Senior Software Engineer, Sandboxes & Virtualization (GPU/Kubernetes)

Location: Livingston, NJ; New York, NY; Sunnyvale, CA; or Bellevue, WA. This position requires access to export-controlled information and is subject to U.S. export-control eligibility requirements.

Base salary: $182,000–$242,000 per year, plus discretionary bonus, equity awards, and benefits.

Company

CoreWeave provides cloud infrastructure, tools, and technical platforms for building and scaling AI workloads.

What you will do

• Design and implement secure execution environments for containerized and virtualized Kubernetes workloads.
• Build GPU-aware scheduling, workload isolation, and resource-management strategies for multi-tenant systems.
• Optimize container, virtual-machine, and I/O performance for latency-sensitive GPU workloads.
• Conduct profiling, benchmarking, and performance tuning across runtime, virtualization, and GPU stacks.
• Influence architecture across Linux internals, container runtimes, virtualization layers, and GPU drivers.
• Collaborate with security, platform, and GPU infrastructure teams to establish runtime isolation and performance standards.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in systems, platform, infrastructure, or production engineering at scale.
• Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes, container orchestration, cloud-native architectures, controllers, operators, or scheduling extensions.
• Experience designing, implementing, or operating secure execution environments, container runtimes, sandboxed workloads, or virtualized systems.
• Practical experience with lightweight virtualization and sandboxing technologies such as Kata Containers, gVisor, KubeVirt, or QEMU.
• Experience supporting GPU-accelerated workloads in multi-tenant environments, including GPU scheduling, isolation, device passthrough, mediated devices, or virtualization.
• Proficiency in Go, C/C++, Rust, or Bash, strong Linux internals knowledge, and experience diagnosing performance, reliability, or isolation issues.

Nice to have

• Experience building systems for safely executing untrusted or sensitive workloads in shared environments.
• Familiarity with GPU drivers, low-level virtualization, or I/O optimization techniques.
• Experience defining threat models and implementing runtime security policies in multi-tenant systems.

Culture & Benefits

• Entrepreneurial environment focused on independent thinking, collaboration, and solving complex technical problems.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance fully paid by CoreWeave for eligible US-based full-time employees.
• Life, disability, mental wellness, family-forming, parental leave, and childcare benefits.
• 401(k) with employer match, flexible PTO, tuition reimbursement, and employee stock purchase program participation.
• Casual work environment with catered meals at office and data center locations.

Hiring process

• Compensation is determined based on qualifications, experience, interview performance, and market location.
• Reasonable accommodations are available for qualified candidates during the hiring process.